Philly.com – Defenseman Letang is Penguins’ unsung star
A great article on Kris from a Philadelphia news site (seriously) ! Check out the excerpt below and click the link to read the article, you will find it very well done with great quotes fromĀ Assistant coach Todd Reirden.
“When he’s out, we miss him, there’s no question about that,” Penguins forward Arron Asham said. “He’s just as talented as any one of those guys [pointing around the locker room].”
To say the least, it was a tough season for Letang. Injuries are the only thing that have kept him out of the Norris Trophy race as the league’s top defenseman. Even with the concussion and knee injury, which caused him to miss 31 games, Letang was nearly a point-per-game player, with 42 in 51 contests.
He finished second among defensemen in points-per-game to Ottawa’s Erik Karlsson. Letang has 21 points in 28 career games against the Flyers.
But to single out Letang as simply an offensive dynamo would be to shortchange him.
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